Let Them Eat Cake (a.k.a. Frankenfood)

Wall Street Journal ^ | April 2, 2004 | Editorial

[OESY]

For residents of developed countries, the campaign to demonize genetically modified food simply means higher prices at the supermarket. In the Third World, however, the scaremongering has a much more dire effect. Nothing demonstrates that more graphically than Angola's decision this week to ban GM grain, even though this will disrupt the food aid that keeps 1.9 million Angolans alive.

[OESY]

Lest one think that the Africans really share the Europeans' "Frankenfood" fears, consider that a team of 17 scientists from the South African Development Community conducted a fact-finding mission to the U.S. and Europe last year and found that GM foods posed no danger to people or animals.

Al "Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah-Ah" Franken is pissed, dissed and fit to be fried.

[goldstategop]

The radical enviros don't care about filthy Third World peasants. What counts is preserving the pretty scenery.

[expatguy]

Beggars can't be choosers.

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[cripplecreek]

I have a few concerns about GM foods but frankly beggers can't be choosers.

[dirtboy]

What counts is preserving the pretty scenery.

And if those peasants were able to grow adequate food with less labor, they might be able to do other things ... and build up some wealth ... and develop better housing ... which would just be a horrible thing, because the eco-safari types wouldn't see all those quant straw-hut villages without water, sewer and electricity any longer. That's just wrong.

[Turbo Pig]

What else would one expect from a region where they routinely hunt down and kill "witches". Back wards thinking, and tribal ignorance runs from the top all the way down to the bottom of many African societies.

[TigerTale]

Mmmmm...Frankenfood.

[Chewbacca]

More food available for the starving children of America.

[Fellow Traveler]

I thought they were talking about people listening to Al Franken

[Teacher317]

The best-fed nation on earth offers free food, and it is rejected by those who are starving as unsafe. Unreal.

[Guillermo]

GM food has been around for thousands of years.

[Lady Jag]

What I said!

[hunter112]

The radical enviros don't care about filthy Third World peasants.

Exactly. Liberals love the earth, but hate the fact that there are people on it.

[hunter112]

The best-fed nation on earth offers free food, and it is rejected by those who are starving as unsafe. Unreal.

Can an entire nation get a Darwin Award for this decision, or do they have to starve themselves out of existence first?

[FierceDraka]

Fine. Let them starve. It will make for less terrorists and weaker enemies in the future.

I empathize with the hordes of the Third World about as much as I empathize with a collection of stones and rocks. They are nothing but cattle to me.

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